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Album Review

Rosa Ena Campos: The Moon In Me

Read "The Moon In Me" reviewed by Jerry D'Souza

by Jerry D'Souza
June 24, 2012

Singer Rosa Ena Campos does not let musical boundaries confine her vision. She goes beyond the obvious to meld style and genres to hone her vocal and interpretive skills.Campos's first foray into music came through learning classical clarinet. That boundary was usurped by improvisational singing into which she wove jazz, bossa nova and Indian classical music. The strands may seem disparate, but the artist in Campos brings them all together with remarkable fluidity and grace.For her ...

Film Review

Sade: Bring Me Home - Live 2011

by Jeff Winbush
June 24, 2012

SadeBring Me Home: Live 2011Epic2012There is no need for the singer Sade to sucker the fans with this sort of ploy. The Once In A Lifetime tour started in April 2011 and ended nine months later with shows in America, Canada, Europe, South America and Australia--106 shows to 800,000 people grossing over $53 million dollars. The band had not toured in a decade and as devout fan knows it might be ten ...

Album Review

Joel Harrison & Lorenzo Feliciati: Holy Abyss

Read "Holy Abyss" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
June 24, 2012

With his stylistic approach to jazz guitar, Joel Harrison imparts a mark of authenticity on whatever genre-busting activities he approaches. Whether tackling drummer Paul Motian's compositions with a folk-jazz, chamber slant on The Music of Paul Motian (Sunnyside, 2011), or morphing country, blues, and jazz on So Long 2nd Street (ACT, 2004), the guitarist often injects a newfangled twist within standard fare. On Holy Abyss, he co-leads with wunderkind Italian bassist Lorenzo Feliciati, supported by three eminent jazz artists for ...

Live Review

Foster The People & The Kooks: New York, NY, May 30, 2012

by Mike Perciaccante
June 24, 2012

Foster The People & The Kooks Summer Concert Series Rumsey Playfield, Central Park New York, NY May 30, 2012 Foster The People, the Grammy-nominated Indie-pop band, provided two prominent songs in the Soundtrack to Summer 2011: “Pumped Up Kicks" (an '80s synth-meets-'60s psych pop, catchy, danceable and upbeat yet sinister song about a Columbine-like massacre) and “Don't Stop (Color The Walls)." Its “Pumped Up Kicks" also won a 2012 Billboard Music Award for Top Rock ...

Album Review

Matt Garrison - Saxophone: Blood Songs

Read "Blood Songs" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 24, 2012

Presenting a primarily original repertoire of sparkling modern jazz, New York saxophonist Matt Garrison follows up his critically acclaimed debut, Familiar Places (DCLEF, 2011), with Blood Songs, an audacious musical tribute to his loving parents. With the exception of producer/trombonist Michael Dease, Garrison assembles a new all-star list of players, including veterans like saxophonist Eric Alexander and trumpeter Greg Gisbert, who mix it up well with young, up-and-coming stars including pianist Roy Assaf and drummer Ulysses Owens, Jr.The ...

Album Review

Curtis Fuller: Down Home

Read "Down Home" reviewed by Bruce Lindsay

by Bruce Lindsay
June 23, 2012

The trombone can be smoothly seductive, raucous, rasping or cheekily fruity by turn. Curtis Fuller is a master of the instrument, a veteran of six decades of top flight jazz who is still full of creativity as a player and writer. Featuring his regular sextet, Down Home is an absolutely delightful recording--a sophisticated collection of tunes performed with a real sense of joy.Fuller's place in jazz history was assured with his appearance on saxophonist John Coltrane's Blue Train ...

Extended Analysis

Sonny Landreth: Elemental Journey

by C. Michael Bailey
June 23, 2012

Sonny Landreth Elemental Journey Landfall Records 2012 How did we arrive at the phenomenon that is guitarist Sonny Landreth? In his autobiography, Father of the Blues: An Autobiography (Da Capo Press, 1969), African American composer W. C. Handy detailed his experience of sleeping on the train platform in Tutwiler, Mississippi, en route to Clarksdale, around 1903. At one point, Handy was awakened from his Delta slumber by: “a lean, ...

Album Review

Artistry Jazz Group and Friends: Tribute!

by Chris Mosey
June 23, 2012

An absolute gem, featuring some of the best players in Scandinavia in an extremely well thought-out program of music, paying tribute to “musicians and artists who shaped new sounds and ideas." It's the brainchild of independent record producer Torgil Rosenberg and pianist Jan Lundgren. Three top Swedish musicians, Peter Asplund on trumpet, Klas Lindqvist on alto sax and clarinet, and Janne Bengtsson on flute, join Lundgren's already all-star Artistry group, filling out the sound on selected numbers. ...

From Far and Wide

Arabic Roots in Blues, Jazz, Rock?

by Fradley Garner
June 23, 2012

Arabic Roots in Blues, Jazz, Rock? Yes, Says Hofstra ProfDoes Islamic music have anything to do with the blues, jazz and rock? A whole lot, asserts Dr. Hussein Rashid, a native New Yorker who teaches religion at Hofstra University. In a lecture at Southern Methodist University in Texas, Rashid spoke of several waves of Islamic-Arabic immigration to America. Muslim Africans in slave-trade times were not allowed to practice their faith or play their ritual drums, and came to ...

Live Review

Timothy B. Schmit, New York, NY, May 29, 2012

by Mike Perciaccante
June 23, 2012

Timothy B. Schmit with special guest Goldspot B.B. King's Bar And Grill New York, NY May 29, 2012 Eagles' bassist Timothy B. Schmit brought his solo tour to New York City's B.B. King's Bar & Grill on Tuesday, May 29, 2012, performing Eagles songs, songs from his 2009 release Expando (Lost Highway) and the rest of his solo career, as well as some well-known songs from his past work with Poco.Opening act Goldspot (named after ...